Tank Auth v1.0 (CI authentication library)

[eluser]Dinesh Shah[/eluser]
@Gromozeka

I was in the middle of writing my own auth for a project. :-) Midway, thought of searching for auth library and found DX_Auth. Played with it a bit and found too big for my needs.

Came across Tank_Auth and able to make it work in couple of hours!

I want user profile data while registering the user (e.g. First Name, Last Name), but could not find a way to put this in Tank_Auth.

Any pointers or hints?

Thanks in advance.

Edit: I came across this post. http://ellislab.com/forums/viewreply/560953/

But I am not sure if I have to add additional fields (input boxes) in my registration form and Tank_Auth will do the right thing?

I further dived in to the code. in users.php model you are calling create_profile() from create_user().

auth/register calls model/create_user with these fix four params "$username, $email, $password, $email_activation".

why not instead pass an array to model/create_user which can have 4 mandatory members and addition profile info can be passed as additional members? like -

auth.php/register

Code:

$data = array();
$data['username'] = null;
$data['email'] = "some email";
$data['password' = "some password";
$data['firstname'] = "First Name";
$data['Lastname'] = "Last Name";

$this->tank_auth->create_user($data)    // pass array from post

library/Tank_auth.php/create_user()

Code:

function create_user($data)
{
   call to model user with $data
}

Then model/users/create_user pass the additional profile info in $data to model/users/create_profile

Do you think this is correct approach?